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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/jilted-friday-october-13-2023-c-and

Speaking of the late, great Ukraine war, which you’ll be forgiven to have forgotten, and in what may be a poignant allegory for the vexing pace of world events, the Bloomberg building in New York City switched off its digital Ukraine flag yesterday — which has been flickering on the building’s top six floors ever since the invasion began — and replaced it with the digital flag of Israel.




Oddly, it has apparently never occurred to Bloomberg to switch on the American flag. Where’s the fun in that?

Ukraine is having an uh-oh moment. ...

Ukraine thought it was America’s fiancé, but it turns out America never planned to get married in the first place. Ukraine is only America’s mistress, or maybe just its little side hustle.

Patrick says

Ukraine thought it was America’s fiancé, but it turns out America never planned to get married in the first place. Ukraine is only America’s mistress, or maybe just its little side hustle.

Well said.

This shit is wild. Current Thing shift!

Patrick says

Like Data's emotion chip.

Patrick says

When Ukrainian forces are marching and attacking through Russia proper using US supplied weapons, this meme would make sense.

Both Hamas and Russia are the belligerent attacking forces.

socal2 says

Patrick says

When Ukrainian forces are marching and attacking through Russia proper using US supplied weapons, this meme would make sense.

Both Hamas and Russia are the belligerent attacking forces.

The US overthrew Ukraine. It would be like if Russia or China overthrew Mexico, and installed a puppet regime, then spent years arming them with weapons and built biological weapons labs there.

Ukraine was also in civil war constantly attacking Eastern Ukraine.

Doesn't that bitch (Margot Robbie) ever close her mouth, or is the overbite too severe?

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1715056447841808758

They'll continue aid as cover for pulling out evidence of biolabs, child trafficking, CIA honeypots, kickback money, globohomo spirit cooking locations, etc.

The_Deplorable says

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1715056447841808758

Have ANY of predictions of that raging moron came true? A single one?

stereotomy says

They'll continue aid as cover for pulling out evidence of biolabs, child trafficking, CIA honeypots, kickback money, globohomo spirit cooking locations, etc.

Dude, the Soviets had 50% of the territory occupied and still 0 evidence of any wrongdoing on the part of Ukrainian government. Believing in any of that shit is like believing in "Iraqi WMD" at this point. Except, of course, child trafficking: the kidnapping and deportation of 700,000 Ukrainian children by the Reds is well-documented, admitted on live TV by the Cretin of Kremlin and acknowledged by the ICC indictment.

9 attack helos fubard in Lugansk and 14 in Berdyansk. Not a bad result for one day of work by 90s batch of ATACAMS missiles taken out of mothballs:

https://twitter.com/MarcinRogowsk14/status/1714719455555584501

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/destruction-from-ukraines-first-atacms-strike-now-apparent

If fucking Potato haven't waffled on these deliveries for a year the Red Army would've been already out of its misery, USSR back in its legal borders and the peace everybody is clamouring for would be at hand.

RWSGFY says

If fucking Potato haven't waffled on these deliveries for a year the Red Army would've been already out of its misery, USSR back in its legal borders and the peace everybody is clamouring for would be at hand.

Really is shocking how crap-ass the Russian military has performed. Sure they have nukes, but they wouldn't stand a chance in a conventional fight against a NATO military with our unrivaled airpower.

Ukraine was only given a handful of the lowest range ATACMS and that was enough to massively change the equation eliminating Russian airfields and vehicles.

socal2 says

Ukraine was only given a handful of the lowest range ATACMS and that was enough to massively change the equation eliminating Russian airfields and vehicles.

Haha. You and RWSGFY are so completely delusional about this conflict.

socal2 says

that was enough to massively change the equation eliminating Russian airfields and vehicles

Dude. If you are gonna smoke crack while posting on PatNet, you have to bring enough to share.

The Ukrainian military, as a result of long-range ATACMS missile strikes on enemy airfields in temporarily occupied Berdiansk and Luhansk, destroyed 9 Russian helicopters, with 15 more being damaged, according to Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) analyst, investigator, and author of Oryx and Bellingcat projects, Jakub Janovsky.
According to the analyst, the attack destroyed seven Ka-52 Alligator helicopters and two Mi-8 helicopters of the Russians.

In addition, 15 helicopters—eight Ka-52s and seven Mi-8s—sustained damage.

Janovsky noted that, for reliability, Oryx classified helicopters not subject to restoration as damaged. Most likely, he mentioned, these are irreversible losses, but there is currently no sufficient evidence to assert this.

Recall that on the night of October 17, the Ukrainian military launched missile strikes on airfields in temporarily occupied Luhansk and Berdiansk.

Later, U.S. media reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces used American ATACMS missiles for the attack. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed this information.

The White House also officially confirmed the transfer of missiles.

Later, satellite images of the Berdiansk airfield after the ATACMS strike appeared online, followed by images of the airport in Luhansk.

As a result of the attack, Russian helicopters were destroyed, although the Russians are currently concealing their losses.

Red Army started with total of 100 operational Ka-52 attack helos. These are credited with succesfully pinning down Ukie armored vehicles preventing them from quickly crossing the mine belt of the Surovikin line. This single strike took 15% of them out of comission and the rest will have to move further back than casette ATACMS range, which is 100 miles, thus significantly increasing their response time and decreasing loitering time.

PS. The total # of lost Ka-52 since start of SCHMO is confirmed at minimum at 59 (https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html?m=1), so 60%. They can't replace these because they used Ukrainian engines.

Of course, the US will whine when Russia gives long range missile systems to the Syrians or Hezbollah that then use them to attack US warships.

Misc says

Of course, the US will whine when Russia gives long range missile systems to the Syrians or Hezbollah that then use them to attack US warships.

The US is attacking Russia.

What is the US doing in the Middle East anyhow? Just get out.

Some quality CGI here:

https://twitter.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1716492677875748978

Through visual analysis of satellite imagery, our team found Russian military vehicle losses in Avdiivka between October 10 and October 20. The total number exceeded 109, indicating a significant loss of approximately aligning to a brigade-sized force in just ten days

RWSGFY says

Some quality CGI here:

https://twitter.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1716492677875748978

Through visual analysis of satellite imagery, our team found Russian military vehicle losses in Avdiivka between October 10 and October 20. The total number exceeded 109, indicating a significant loss of approximately aligning to a brigade-sized force in just ten days

Oh wow! More Ukey Nazi Propaganda BS!

RWSGFY says

"Through visual analysis of satellite imagery, our team found Russian military vehicle losses in Avdiivka between October 10 and October 20. The total number exceeded 109, indicating a significant loss of approximately aligning to a brigade-sized force in just ten days"

If this is true, then how come the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine are now part of Russia? The above narrative contradicts the reality on the ground.

The_Deplorable says

If this is true, then how come the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine are now part of Russia? The above narrative contradicts the reality on the ground.

Uh - because Russia illegally invaded and took it before Ukraine was mobilized and armed with superior Western weapons?

Still amazes me how pathetic the Russian military has performed and still unable to secure a victory pushing 2 years and hundreds of thousands of casualties. Even worse considering Russia is right fucking next door to make logistics easier and supposedly have lots of pro-Russian Ukrainians they are trying to liberate.

Absent nukes, Russia's crap-ass military wouldn't last a few days against the US or modern NATO military.

I laugh when people use the word "Illegal." WTF was this country doing for the last 30-40 years?

Might is right, and those who whine when it's the other side doing the same thing that our side has been doing continually since that time is the quintessence of hypocrisy.

stereotomy says

I laugh when people use the word "Illegal." WTF was this country doing for the last 30-40 years?

Might is right, and those who whine when it's the other side doing the same thing that our side has been doing continually since that time is the quintessence of hypocrisy.

I laugh when the Russian boosters cry about "coups" in Ukraine justifying Russia's cockup of an invasion getting hundreds of thousands of people killed.

The USSR and Russia have instigated and supported numerous Marxist insurgencies all over the planet stunting generations in Europe, Africa, Asia and South/Central America.

How dare the USSR's former slave colonies in Eastern Europe want closer relations to the West - right?

socal2 says

I laugh when the Russian boosters cry about "coups" in Ukraine justifying Russia's cockup of an invasion getting hundreds of thousands of people killed.

Why? It was a coup. If the US didn't overthrow the Ukrainian government, I'd the new puppet government didn't make war again East Ukraine for 8 years, if the puppet government just remained neutral there would have been no war.

And only 300,000? The US killed about 800,000 Iraqis over a non existent weapons of mass destruction program. Putin has an additional 1/2 million to go to be even comparable to Bush

The Iraq war, officially, ended in 2011. So 6 more years for Russia to go as well.

You like to whine about Putin, when George W. Bush is right here. You have no problem with Bush apparently. You don't mind mass murders as long as they are running the United States

richwicks says

The US killed about 800,000 Iraqis over a non existent weapons of mass destruction program.

The vast majority of Iraqis were killed by their fellow Muslims. Same deal in Afghanistan.

It wasn't Americans that were blowing up Shia and Sunni mosques killing 300 at a time for years and years with bitter Sunni/Shia civil war. It wasn't Americans that were sending suicide bombers into lines of people trying to vote or get government jobs. It wasn't Americans blowing up schools for little girls.

So yes, America did fail in keeping the crazy Muslims from killing each other. But that doesn't mean that ISIS and Iranian Shia death squads have no agency or moral responsibility to the thousands and thousands they killed.

Earlier I said "If this is true, then how come the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine are now part of Russia? RWSGFY's narrative contradicts the reality on the ground."

socal2: "Uh - because Russia illegally invaded and took it before Ukraine was mobilized and armed with superior Western weapons?"

No, you are ignoring the facts. This is Obama's war because...

• It was Obama who overthrew the democratically elected government of the Ukraine in 2014 and installed the current Nazi regime.

• And it was these Nazis who started killing Ukraine's Russian speakers for speaking Russian!

• Look: If you start shooting and killing people you cannot blame them for shooting back. It is called self defense.

• According to Mcgregor and Scott Ritter Ukraine thus far lost over 500,000 soldiers. So where do you see Ukraine winning this war?

And another one.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

"Chairman of Russia's oil major Lukoil dies suddenly aged 66"
The previous head of Lukoil's board, Ravil Maganov, died in September 2022 after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, according to two sources familiar with the situation.

Several Russian businessmen, most with ties to the energy industry, have died suddenly in unclear circumstances in the months following the start of what Moscow calls its special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/chairman-russias-oil-major-lukoil-dies-suddenly-aged-66-2023-10-24/

The statement that America killed 800000 Iraqis is Fairy Tale make believe.

https://sashastone.substack.com/p/tucker-on-jailing-priests-in-ukraine

Tucker on Jailing Priests in Ukraine

Ep. 34 Of all of Biden’s crimes, backing the Ukrainian government as it throws priests in jail may be the most revealing.

socal2 says

"Chairman of Russia's oil major Lukoil dies suddenly aged 66"

Was he vaxxed?

Onvacation says

socal2 says

"Chairman of Russia's oil major Lukoil dies suddenly aged 66"

Was he vaxxed?

It's Russia, he probably fell out of a window.